A police officer was operated on in Saint-Etienne on the night of Thursday to Friday May 14, after receiving a projectile in the head during an intervention for night noise, in Rive-de-Gier (Loire), a-t - we learned from police and judicial sources.
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The 51-year-old brigadier-chef, whose vital prognosis is not engaged, collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness in a street in this town in the Gier valley, after receiving a glass bottle at the level of the right cheekbone shortly after midnight.
"
He underwent an intervention overnight at the neurological service of the Saint-Etienne University Hospital
," a representative of the SGP Police-FO Unit union told AFP.
"The individuals initially refused to leave, invoking Eid"
The Alliance Police Nationale union evokes in a press release "
a state deemed serious by the medical profession
", asking "for
the rapid establishment of minimum and irreducible sentences for the perpetrators of such acts
".
The victim was part of a crew of three police officers from the Saint-Chamond police station who ensured the application of the curfew, who went to meet a group of about fifteen people reported for "
night noise
" in the Grand Pont district, according to Vincent Bony, the PCF mayor of Rive-de-Gier, adding "
strongly condemn this unacceptable aggression
".
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The individuals initially refused to leave, invoking Eid (note: the Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan), then throwing projectiles in the direction of the police,
" the deputy prosecutor told AFP of the Republic of Saint-Etienne, André Merle. No one had been arrested at midday as part of the investigation opened against the perpetrators of this violence against people holding public authority.